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Abolishing the Death Penalty in America by Alex Albadree
Execute Justice, Not People, a portrait of Billie Allen (2020) by Alex Albadree
Capital punishment not only fails to advance justice, it allows systemic racism and classism to be enacted through execution. This system is why Billie Allen has been facing his execution for 23 years for a wrongful conviction.
Proponents of the death penalty will say that it deters crime. However, crime and murder rates before and after abolishing capital punishment show no evidence to support this. What the evidence does show is that innocent people are consistently sentenced to death.
Since 1973, over 169 death row inmates in the US have been exonerated. Over 169 innocent people sitting in a cell for years, knowing they will be killed by the State for something they didn't do. And that's just the ones who have been exonerated. How many more innocent people have we murdered through our "justice" system?
Decades of research also shows that the poor and marginalized are more often sentenced to death. Almost everyone on death row was unable to afford to hire an attorney. When you have a criminal justice system that is based on capitalism, then you have a system where justice and rights are commodities for sale. Poor people can not purchase presumed innocence, the right to freedom or even the right to life.
And just BEING Black makes a death sentence 4x more likely than for a white defendant with the same charges. 13% of the population of the US is Black but 42% of death row inmates are Black. AND OVER 50% OF EXONERATED CASES ARE BLACK.
In Billie Allen's case, his attorney failed to disclose evidence and never called his alibi. Plus, proven false testimonies were provided against him. Due to this, 23 years have been stolen from Billie and his life still hangs in the balance. Devastatingly, his story is just one of too many.
WE ARE MAKING A MOCKERY OF JUSTICE WITH OUR SYSTEMIC KILLING OF INNOCENT BLACK PEOPLE IN AMERICA.
Dustin Higgs (2021) by Alex Albadree
Capital punishment not only fails to advance justice, it allows systemic racism and classism to be enacted through execution. After everything that our government has done, continues to do in the face of our anger, action, and despair, what is the point in continuing to call, protest, petition, rally? Why does it matter if it achieves nothing?
Because injustice CANNOT be allowed to stand unopposed. Because Dustin Higgs should not have stood alone in his struggle for the last day of his life. Dustin, and every victim of injustice, deserves to have our voice added to theirs. They deserve to have us all stand with them. On Dustin's last day, we made damn sure he spent it knowing we were fighting for him with everything we had and that we will keep fighting to abolish this barbaric practice.
So send yet another email. Pick up the phone and spend another ten minutes of your life demanding for others. Donate what you have to spare. Show up to the rallies. Vote for those that will ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY.
SHOW UP even when you don't think it will change anything, because it's the FUCKING RIGHT THING TO DO.
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Brandon Bernard (2020) by Alex Albadree
The injustice of the death penalty is so clear. It has not place in our society. And it has to end. We're all more than the worst thing we've ever done, because all human beings are capable of change. If our criminal justice system is to change, it should be designed not just to punish, but also to rehabilitate those who've committed crimes.
There should always be the opportunity for rehabilitation, redemption and grace. We have the capacity to hold people accountable and separate dangerous people from society without foreclosing that opportunity.
Texts by Emelie Yonally Phillips
Alex Albadree divides his time between DC and Istanbul where he creates art for social justice. The pieces Alex creates aim to engage with current and historical events to raise critical consciousness and call individuals to take action for social transformation. Alex applies an intersectional approach to the issues he amplifies, highlighting the ways that oppressive systems rooted in white supremacy and capitalism degrade our empathy, dignity and environment. Through beautifully crafted digital illustrations, Alex invites us to take a hard, honest look at our world and at ourselves. And then to imagine a better world. And, most importantly, to fight for it.


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Strengthening Students Social and Emotional Skills: Lessons From Six Case Studies of Schools and Their Out-of-School Time Program Partners
This report from the Rand Corporation provides lessons learned from the Wallace Foundation's Partnership for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative (PSELI). Since 2017, six cities each have 5-7 partnerships each to explore how children benefit if schools and out-of-school collaborate to improve climate and foster social-emotional learning.
Let's Talk Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Podcast
This 3-part podcast series on social-emotional learning (SEL) explores with researchers from Harvard's EASEL program: (1) What Is SEL and How It Has Evolved, (2) High-quality SEL and the New Navigating SEL Guide, and (3) The Intersection of SEL and Equity. Although primarily focused on schools, the ideas apply to OST, too.
Out-of-School Time Programs: Paving the Way for Children to Find Passion, Purpose, and Voice
This slide deck presents research on how parents, teachers, and Out-of-School Time (OST) providers perceive the value of OST in children's social, emotional, and academic development.
Putting Data to Work for Young People: A Framework for Measurement, Continuous Improvement, and Equitable Systems
This framework and guidebook can help people assess afterschool systems, programs, and youth outcomes in the interest of informing system improvements with up-to-date accurate information. Every Hour Counts used the framework to evaluate Boston, Providence, and Sprockets in St. Paul and findings from this experience informed this version.
Navigating Social and Emotional Learning from the Inside Out: Looking Inside and Across 33 Leading SEL Programs: A Practical Resource for Schools and OST Providers; Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition (Preschool and Elementary Focus)
This newly updated and expanded report provides a framework for understanding social and emotional learning (SEL). It can be used as a reference to compare the content and evidence of effectiveness of 33 SEL programs for elementary-age and preschool-age children.
American Rescue Plan Act Resources
The Wallace Foundation has created four issue briefs to help state system planners make decisions about spending American Rescue Plan funds. The briefs summarize the evidence on outcomes and implementation guidance and each brief includes a bibliography.
Out-of-School Time Programs This Summer: Paving the Way for Children to Find Passion, Purpose & Voice - Parent, Teacher & OST Provider Perceptions
This slide show provides a summary of what parents, teachers, and Out-of-School Time (OST) providers want in summer programs for 2021 based on a combination of focus groups, interviews, and 3,031 surveys. Results indicate that parents want summer programs to prioritize their children's social and emotional health.
The Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning (PSELI) Initiative Podcasts
These five podcasts feature promising practices from the Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative (PSELI). The episodes focus on developing the capacity of adults to promote SEL, building effective partnerships, the role of coaches, and coordination between school and out-of-school programs. This resource supports the COVID-19 response.
Every Summer Counts: A Longitudinal Analysis of Outcomes from the National Summer Learning Project
This report shares evaluation findings from 2017 of the longer-term impacts of a summer learning project in five school districts: Boston, Dallas, Duval County in Florida, Pittsburgh, and Rochester. It explores the effects of two consecutive summers of voluntary, full-day programming for at least 20 days three school years after the second summer of programming.
Early Lessons from Schools and Out-of-School Time Programs Implementing Social and Emotional Learning
The report and executive summary review lessons learned from the first two years of the Partnership for Social-Emotional Learning Initiative (PSELI). Findings are based on surveys, interviews, and observations from 38 partnerships in 6 sites about the barriers and solutions to school-OST partnerships on SEL.

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Jeff Bezos to kick off 3-day India visit on January 15, to review India ops and meet industrialists
Updated : January 14, 2020 08:33 PM IST
The CEO is expected to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, other top officials as well as industry leaders like Reliance Industries' Chairman Mukesh Ambani.
Bezos will also attend an event known as SMBhav focussing on small and medium businesses in India on January 15-16 New Delhi.
In Mumbai, Amazon founder may meet and greet Bollywood stars. A fireside is also planned with actor Shah Rukh Khan.
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Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos will visit India on January 15 for a tour packed with meetings with industrialists, company executives and heads of small businesses.
Over three days, Bezos will review and plan Amazon's operations in the country. Bezos is also due to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other government officials as well as industry leaders such as Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, according to people familiar with his itinerary.
Bezos is expected to attend an Amazon event for entrepreneurs, sellers in Delhi, they said, requesting anonymity. He will also participate in a "mega Prime Video event" and has a meet and greet with Bollywood stars.
At the Prime Video event in Mumbai, a fireside chat with Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan has been planned.
Bezos is keen to get a first-hand view of India, given its strategic importance to Amazon's operations, one of the persons quoted above said. The trip has been in the works for some time now.
The meeting with the Prime Minister has not been finalised yet, however.
India remains in focus in 2020
For Bezos and Amazon, India will be a priority market in 2020.
Amazon dominates the online retail landscape in India with Flipkart, it's rival. Earlier this week, Amazon Retail India Private Limited (ARIPL) closed a deal with Kishore Biyani's Future Consumer Limited (FCL) for the distribution of the latter's portfolio of brands online. Through this agreement, Future Consumer will build an online channel and offer brands to millions of Amazon's customers.
Bezos is coming to India when the online retail market is galloping. India's retail industry, valued at Rs 66.39 lakh crore, or $950 billion, in 2018, is expected to cross $1 trillion this year, according to India Brand Equity Foundation. Online retail sales are forecast to touch Rs 4.19 lakh crore, or $60 billion, this year.
According to Morgan Stanley, the online retail market will be worth $200 billion by 2027. India currently has nearly 700 million internet users.
But running an operation is not easy. The government tightened rules for e-commerce marketplaces with foreign investment last year, preventing such platforms from offering products of sellers in which they hold a stake. It also prohibited exclusive marketing arrangements among other clauses. Companies such as Amazon were forced to restructure their joint ventures to ensure compliance.
Bezos is expected to discuss regulatory matters in his meetings with government officials.
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Bezos' attendance at SMBhav will be keenly watched. Small and medium enterprises have been complaining against ecommerce giants, accusing them of destroying their businesses by providing deep discounts. Several traders have complained to the government that Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart offer deep discounts and engage in unfair business practices.
The Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) has said that it has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to give them a chance to brief him before his proposed meeting with Bezos.
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Rivalry between the world's richest man and Asia's richest man
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Calling itself 'Desh ki Nayi Dukaan', JioMart will, for now, cater to online shoppers in the suburban Mumbai areas of Navi Mumbai, Thane and Kalyan but will expand later.
JioMart will give its users options to shop from 50,000-plus grocery products, free home delivery with no minimum order value, no-questions-asked return policy and an express delivery promise, the Mint newspaper report added.
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Jenny Ludmer for B.O.E.
Last on the Ballot, First for Princeton!
About Jenny Ludmer
As a parent and a proven school and community organizer, I'm eager to serve Princeton's Board of Education. With three kids in the Princeton Public School (PPS) system, I'm committed to building consensus and seeing our schools strengthened!
*Please visit my Campaign page to review the latest news.*
What's My Background?
Trained in scientific writing, analysis and research, I want to use my analytical skills to work with Board members, parents and teachers to strengthen our school system. Now, as a parent and enthusiastic volunteer for Littlebrook and John Witherspoon, I am keenly aware of the many devoted teachers in our schools, as well as our diverse student needs. Please read on to learn more about my qualifications and experience:
Experienced Analyst: With a BS in biology from James Madison University and an MS in physiology from UCLA, I spent ten years in scientific work at UCLA, Duke and Lockheed Martin.
LB Science Expo Coordinator: At Littlebrook Elementary School, I lead the annual Science Expo — a full day where science completely takes over the school. Working with our devoted Science Teacher to recruit and organize about 40 parents and community members is no small feat, but it's worth it.
LB Garden Coordinator: Also at Littlebrook, I have been a champion for our wonderful School Garden, not only assisting in its year-round care but also promoting the garden to parents and recruiting volunteers.
LB Green Team Member: Littlebrook's Green Team is relatively new, and I've been thrilled to work with teachers, parents and administrators to lead its rapid growth. Last year, Littlebrook won the statewide TREX Recycling Challenge, and this year we filed for certification for Sustainable Jersey for Schools.
Former LB Chess Coordinator: For several years, I promoted the after-school chess club to Littlebrook parents; organized about 60 kids into three classes based on ability level; recruited and managed chess instructors; and modernized the registration process.
JW VP for Communications: Excited to learn about the many activities offered by the John Witherspoon Middle School, I joined the JW PTO Board last year and have enjoyed promoting these events to parents through newsletters and a website.
PPS Green Team Committee Member: After learning that the district's first attempt to bring in composting was not successful, I joined this committee and worked with others to successfully roll-out our new composting contract at every PPS school.
Complete Streets Committee Member: As a community activist, I currently work with eight other citizens and town officials to coordinate, monitor, evaluate and provide advice to the Mayor, Council and the Planning Board concerning implementation of the Complete Streets Policy.
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Super Audio CD—One Year Later
John Atkinson | Nov 15, 2000
In his very English way, Sony's then managing director for the UK, Tim Steele, was getting a touch, er, desperate. His oh-so-cultured voice rose a smidgen as he resorted to a direct selling of the benefits of what he was talking about. "Look, you're all sitting on riches," was his fundamental pitch. "You can sell music-lovers your entire back catalog all over again—at a higher price!"
The scene was a London seminar scant months before the Japanese launch of Compact Disc in fall 1982, and less than a year before the official US launch at the 1983 Chicago Consumer Electronics Show. Sony was trying hard to get major executives representing all the major labels to understand what CD had to offer them.
It will be hard for you who didn't live through the CD launch to believe, but the record industry was very resistant to the introduction of the medium that has since made them so much money. You would have thought that, coupled with the opportunity to redefine the retail price of recorded music to almost double its existing level, Tim was making an irresistible argument. But the general reaction from the gathered music-biz folks at that 1982 seminar was that with prerecorded cassettes outselling the LP, why confuse the market? Even two years after the launch, I was having dinner with a friend who was at that time in charge of US back-catalog sales for a major label, and his skepticism about CD ran deep.
Now, of course, these same people—or their successors—not only take for granted the profits generated by the Compact Disc, but take credit for having invented the CD as well.
As I've pointed out before in these pages, dominant recorded-music media tend to appear once a generation—every 20 years. CBS first demonstrated the microgroove LP in 1948; Philips launched the Compact Cassette in 1963; and Philips, with Sony, introduced consumers to digital audio technology with 1983's Compact Disc. There were other media launches along the way—prerecorded open-reel tape, the 8-track cartridge, Elcaset, DAT, MiniDisc, DCC—but none of these had what it took to make it in other than specialized niches, if at all. And now, of course, there are two new contenders for the crown: Super Audio CD and DVD-Audio.
It was exactly one year ago, in the November 1999 Stereophile, that Jonathan Scull reviewed the first dedicated Super Audio CD player to reach these shores: Sony's $5000 SCD-1. This issue features Jonathan's report on the only DVD-Audio player you could buy in the US as of the time of shipping this issue of the magazine to the printer: Technics' $1200 DVD-A10.
As you can read in Jonathan's review of the Technics, the DVD-Audio launch has been nothing less than a fiasco, with just one disc officially available at the time of last summer's delayed launch. (To Technics' credit, at least they made their debut with a universal player, so its owners can play DVD-Videos and CDs.) With hindsight, the fiasco might have been foreseen, given the involvement of so many parties—not only hardware manufacturers but also the record industry, paranoid over the need to stamp the new high-resolution media with "watermarks."
Ah, the record industry. Of course, it's always easy to knock the people who control the flow of the music we crave. But their shortsightedness regarding what they've been offered by new media is nothing new—witness the efforts Tim Steele was having to make back in 1982. And when you look at the current size of the US recorded-music industry—an estimated $15.5 billion in 2000, according to a recent study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Wilkofsky Gruen Associates—it's hard to feel any sympathy for their claims that their current economic position has been significantly affected by CD copying by individuals, or by piracy in countries (such as China) that historically have adopted a laissez-faire attitude to copyright protection.
There were two areas where the CD didn't satisfy the record industry. First was that, for every disc sold, a royalty had to be paid to Sony and Philips, as the owners of almost all the patents embodied in the CD format. While this is trivial in the larger scheme of things, I'm sure it stuck in the throat of many an executive. Now, with many CD patents about to expire and the rest rendered more or less moot by the different physical nature of the DVD carrier, I'm sure this is why many more record companies have signed on with DVD-A than with SACD, at least in theory.
Second and much more fundamental was the fact that, with the unencrypted nature of its digital datastream, CD broke with all prior media in offering consumers access to the master. With the limitations of analog playback technology—or, to be more politically correct, the changes wrought in the music by the acts of mastering and duplicating in the analog domain—the LP a consumer could buy was, by definition, different from what the record company had in its tape vaults. And while you could copy an LP onto tape of some kind, the result was even more different. Provided the pricing of the commercial music media was appropriate, therefore, there would always be an inherent marketing advantage with the real thing: it was closer to the original.
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is a Japanese film director, animator, and writer born in 1974 in Osaka, where he is currently based. Nishio started his career as an animator on anime including "Moldiver" and the TV series Sosei kishi Gaiasu. As a teenager, he started working on sets of movies by Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku. He moved on from animation, starting off with short films, before making his first feature film National Anthem—a horror film—in 2003. His next movie was the surreal Ochon-chan: Pussy's Adventures in Love and Revolution (Ochonchan no ai to bōken to kakumei おちょんちゃんの愛と冒険と革命) in 2005. Ochon-chan was picked for Osaka's  Film Festival, and then was one of two movies selected from that to feature at the 2005 Raindance Film Festival in London.

His most recent film Hakodate Coffee was shot in Hokkaido, Japan, and was based on the manga of the same name.

His recent movies are often generally quirky dramas, with a touch of comedy, set in rural Japan. Nishio won the Osaka Film Festival New Director's Award in 2013, for Souru furawâ torein.

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Dave surfing on a Wednesday morning. Photo: Nathan Oldfield.
They also connected as much around a more subtle approach to capturing the surfing act. "Nathan's signature is that they're gentle and introspective takes on surfing," offers Dave. "The culture is pretty loud and raw and fast and he's not a loud and fast-paced guy; he's chilled and much more of a listener and a talker great listener great asker of questions. His movies are meditations and musings and a deeper look a t the surfing life. His films ask, what does a surfing life look like? He's also got a different perspective when we go to places that have been shot a million times. He doesn't go in guns blazing; he's really considerate and it's a gentle approach to his subjects, whether that's film or stills."
"We go to the spot with a million closeouts and one good one, as long as there's nobody there."
Inside This Soft World was shot on a single North Coast autumn day and is fairly typical of how Dave and Nathan work. "We try and be subtle and zig while everyone's zagging," says Nathan, who managed to zig and zag and find enough clear water to avoid a single other surfer appearing in frame. "I'm not really the full-time camera guy so the shooting relationship is more relaxed. We rock up separately and I've always got a towel around the tripod and I slip in and slip out. It's never a production. We try and stay incognito. Dave is the master sandbank bloodhound, he sniffs them out, whispers about a little corner at such and such and he always goes for a little surf check on dark to see what the sands doing for the following morning. We go to the spot with a million closeouts and one good one, as long as there's nobody there."
A still from the new clip. Photo: Nathan Oldfield.
Unlike much of Nathan's other work, there is no higher meaning with Inside This Soft World. It's simply Dave, surfing on a Wednesday morning… which can be argued implicitly has its own higher meaning. "He's so unhurried with a real economy of movement," offers Nathan. "You know how dancers talk about 'first position', that stance or pose where they can spring from? Dave has that down. His first position is easy on the eye and he can be standing there relaxed, unhurried, in first position then he'll just drop a hammer and blow your mind. It's hard for me to edit it out, it's the space between the notes, that's where the music happens with his surfing."
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New Analyses of Komatiites Shed Light on Formation and Earth's Hydrated Mantle
Earth's mantle is complex and dynamic, driving processes at the surface and influencing myriad aspects of our everyday lives such as plate tectonics and volcanism.
Over the course of Earth's history, the mantle has changed, with slow cooling resulting in an evolving mineral composition. Understanding how Earth's mantle changed following planetary accretion is challenging, and relies on finding ancient samples of erupted lava to study.
Komatiites represent such ancient samples, and scientists have studied specimens from Canada, South Africa, and Australia for decades. Komatiites are ultramafic, and formed from lavas that were almost water-like in consistency. Because of this low viscosity, komatiite lava flows would have left only millimeter-thick deposits. The samples present on Earth today likely represent ancient magma chambers formed in the Archaean over 2.5 billion years ago, and are very rare.
Two hypotheses for komatiites dominate the literature, and are vigorously contested. Based on their chemical composition, komatiite magmas must have formed in the mantle, but at higher temperatures than exist in Earth today. The first hypothesis suggests that lavas depleted in water formed with mantle temperatures more than 500 °C higher than today. On the other hand, if komatiite magmas contained several weight % water, an increase in mantle temperature of only 100 °C would explain their chemical and physical characteristics.
In a new paper published in the journal Nature, a team of scientists including DCO collaborator Alexander Sobolev (Université Grenoble Alpes, France) performed new analyses on Canadian komatiite samples [1]. The data suggest that these komatiites are not enriched in water, containing only 0.6% water by weight.
This relatively low water content has several consequences. Firstly, it points to a plume origin for komatiite melts deep in Earth's mantle, since higher water contents would link komatiite eruptions to plate tectonics. However, that the melts contain 0.6% water is intriguing because it is 20 times higher than expected from the concentration of similarly incompatible elements.
Sobolev et al. suggest that this water came from the mantle transition zone, between 660-410 km deep, as the partially melted komatiite source plume passed through it. Pearson et al. showed recently that the transition zone contains an ocean of water [2]. The age of the komatiites means the transition zone water has been there for at least 2.7 billion years. Consequently, either subduction started very early in Earth's history, transporting water from the surface into the transition zone, or water was trapped in the planet's interior during accretion.
Sobolev AV, Asafov EV, Gurenko AA, Arndt NT, Batanova VG, Portnyagin MV, Garbe-Schönberg D, Krasheninnikov SP (2016) Komatiites reveal a hydrous Archaean deep-mantle reservoir. Nature 531:628-632
Pearson DG, Brenker FE, Nestola F, McNeill J, Nasdala L, Hutchison MT, Matveev S, Mather K, Silversmit G, Schmitz S, Vekemans B, Vincze L (2014) Hydrous mantle transition zone indicated by ringwoodite included within diamond. Nature 507:221-224
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Perseus Crags () is a group of about twelve small nunataks dominated by a high whale-backed hill, located on the west edge of the Dyer Plateau of Palmer Land, about 30 nautical miles (60 km) ENG. of Wade Point. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after the constellation of Perseus.

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Quality and safety data from 456 projects constructed by an Australian contractor are analyzed. A total of 21,104 and 17,464 injuries and nonconformances (NCR), respectively, were identified and categorized. A total of 86% of injuries that were incurred were because of minor cuts or sprains, but allowed the person to continue to carry out their normal duties. NCRs less than AU$20 thousand accounted for 96% of the total costs incurred. Moreover, NCRs greater than AU$100 thousand and those between AU$20 thousand to AU$100 thousand accounted for 42 and 36%, respectively. The number of NCRs attributed to rework was 47%, which represented 84% of their total cost. Further analysis revealed that injuries were significantly correlated with NCRs, specifically rework (p<0.01 p<0.01 ). As the variance for injuries significantly exceeded its mean, there was overdispersion within the data. Therefore, a negative binomial model was developed to predict injuries, while simultaneously considering the relationship with NCRs and different types of projects based on the worker-hours worked. The mean monthly predicted against actual injuries for 106-month period was computed. The developed model provides an accurate prediction of injury frequency and thus could be used as a passive lead-indicator as part of a contractor's safety and quality performance programs. In addition, it is promulgated that it can support the process of requisite imagination, which involves anticipating what might go wrong and provide the impetus for testing problems in advance of commencing the construction process with regard to quality and safety issues.
Love, P. and Teo, P. 2017. Statistical Analysis of Injury and Nonconformance Frequencies in Construction: Negative Binomial Regression Model. Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. 143 (8): Article ID 05017011.


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MLB trade rumors: Indians, Phillies checking on Rangers' Joey Gallo
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The Rangers are getting some interest in first baseman/outfielder Joey Gallo, according to a report from The Dallas Morning News, which cited unidentified sources.
Gallo is batting .187 this season but he is tied for sixth in MLB with 25 home runs.
Cleveland has missed Lonnie Chisenhall's bat in the lineup as he has been dealing with a calf injury. Gallo wouldn't be a bad replacement.
As for the Phillies, they have been trying to add bats to their lineup leading up to the trade deadline. They already acquired infielder Asdrubal Cabrera on Friday to help out and Gallo would be a welcome addition.
MLB trade news: Cubs acquire Cole Hamels from Rangers
Rangers general manager Jon Daniels did not say whether the team was shopping the 24-year-old, but he said no player was untouchable.
"You know, I hesitate to put that label on anybody because the reality is, if somebody wanted to get — or if somebody valued one of your players at a really high level, you have to listen," Daniels told the Ben & Skin Show on KRLD-AM last week. "Obviously, there are some guys that are less likely to be moved than others, but I think it's pretty rare — outside of a Mike Trout-type situation — where you truly have an untouchable player in today's game."
Gallo is not arbitration eligible until after the 2019 season and won't be a free agent until 2022. That makes him very appealing in a trade for teams, according to the report.
Texas is a known seller at the deadline as it is last in the American League West with a 42-62 record. The team already traded Cole Hamels this week.


I've said it before, I'm grateful – grateful for modern medicine, for a cure, for my GI doctor and my surgeon, for my support system, my family, and my amazing husband. Most of the time I feel that gratitude, but mingled with the gratitude, there's a mixture of other feelings.
Around the 2-week post-surgery mark, reality started to hit. Prior to surgery, I was dealing with a lot of pain and fatigue which didn't leave a lot of room left for feelings or for processing everything that the surgery meant and would mean for my future. The first week and a half after the surgery didn't involve a lot of processing either. I was at the hospital for the first 5 days, and once I was released, the novelty of the everything, the relief from the absence of pain and urgency, the holiday, and the handful of medications I was prescribed made things very easy to cope with. As I neared 2-weeks post-surgery, the physical battle got easier and the mental battle began.
There were a couple of things that really seemed to be impacting me mentally – the emotional process of dealing with grief and loss and working toward acceptance, and the fatigue and boredom. I started to process everything for what seemed like the first time, and I started feeling feelings. I felt loss – loss of normalcy, loss of my summer, loss of time while I recover and go through two more surgeries, loss of timing for plans I had for myself, etc. Additionally, I was just plain tired. The medications were becoming exhausting, and not having the energy I wanted to have was frustrating. Staying at home and "recovering" can be very boring and lonely, and watching Netflix for hours on end loses its pizazz prettttty quickly. My family and husband were vital during this time.
This blog wouldn't be a full picture of my journey without sharing these things. I truly believe these ups and downs are normal and part of the process of recovery. And just as strongly, I believe it's important to talk about them, so that others who go through this process, or something similar, know IT IS OKAY and that they are right where they are supposed to be.


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On Wednesday September 26 a few of the Glasco Science students participated in the 2018 Milford Regional ECO-Meet held at the Milford Lake Fish Hatchery. The students participated in two college level lab practical exams which rotate on a two year cycle, this year the first exam was Herpetology 2017-2018 and the second exam was the Woodlands 2018-2019. These exams test student knowledge of sounds made by different species, general information, and the identification of mounted specimens, pictures, or illustrations of organisms. The students as teams then participated in a scavenger hunt for items (plants and animals/evidence) native to this area. The students then needed to perform a skit about the life history of organisms (species native to Kansas) with each student representing one Kansas organism in a format that should be educational and entertaining. They must include the organisms food sources, a description of the organism so that the judges and spectators can mentally visualize the organism, a description of their habitat, the reproductive and growth life cycle, and an item of special interest specific to that organism.
1st and 2nd Place in the Herpetology exam also received a One-Year Membership to the Kansas Herpetological Society.
The Southern Cloud students performed very well and indicated that they enjoyed the opportunity to participate and the challenges that the contest provided. They are looking for forward to accepting the challenge again in 2019.


Life Tab members, or 'Lifers' as we like to call ourselves, have a vision to reach out to hurting, searching and lonely people of Langley. In order to have room for everyone we believe God is calling us to serve, we need more space.
God has given our pastor the vision and leadership to launch a capital giving campaign which through a miraculous series of events actually exceeded the campaign goal.
This three-year capital campaign which launched in March of 2016 has allowed us to purchase the property next door to our current church building and start plans for expansion, one step at a time.
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HOSPITALITY / WELCOME AREA – for connecting over coffee and cookies after service.
STUDENT CENTRE – a customized space with seating for 100 teens.
CHILDCARE CENTRE – for both toddlers and a private nursing room.
DEDICATED PRAYER ROOM – with an outside door for 24 / 7 prayer access.
AMPLE PARKING – parking for up to 100 cars.
These photos are the inspiration for our capital giving campaign, GiveLife. While we realize the end result most likely will not look like this, these photos do give an idea of what we are shooting for.
A multipurpose area providing space for dinners, outreaches, student activities and recreation time.


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One in three sex workers surveyed report being sexually abused by police
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"[The female officer] was going to teach all the 'prostitutes' a lesson. The male police officers grabbed those ladies so the lady could force the [used] condoms into each lady's mouth
Nosipho Vidima arrived at work at around seven o'clock that evening. The streets of Morningside in Durban were still bustling with people driving and walking home from work.
As the roads quietened, Vidima and her colleagues got ready for the tasks of the day.
A police van drove in the direction of the corner where Vidima was stationed. As it got closer, Vidima recognised the driver — it was a police officer with whom she had had many encounters in the past.
The officer once arrested Vidima and another worker. He took them to the Durban Central police station where he and other police members beat them up.
"He didn't like me because I was more opinionated than the others," Vidima recalls. "I would voice my dissatisfaction about the way they were treating us."
Every time he drove past Vidima's corner, he would say to her: "You are too clever for your own good. Why are you here?"
But on this particular night, she didn't respond when he spoke to her. The officer got out of the van and told her to get into the back.
Vidima didn't fight or argue.
"I could see that the van wasn't going in the direction of the police station when he drove off. I looked through the windows and I realised he was driving to Burman Bush," Vidima remembers.
He parked in an isolated part of Burman Bush nature reserve, a known hot spot where people who pose as clients beat, rape — and sometimes kill — sex workers, she says.
The police officer stopped and opened the back of the van to let Vidima out. He told her to sit in the front. Then he unfastened his pants and said: "Blow job."
"I took out a condom but he didn't want it, so I ended up blowing him without one," she remembers. "I prayed it didn't go further than that because I couldn't take it. But it didn't end there … He raped me."
Vidima pauses.
"I have actually lost count of how many times the police have raped me. I've become numb," she says. "It is a constant battle to be a sex worker, especially if you're going to be working on the streets."
Vidima is one of a third of almost 60 surveyed sex workers who say they have been raped or sexually assaulted by police, according to a new report by Sonke Gender Justice and Sex Workers Education and Advocacy Taskforce (Sweat).
Sex workers also frequently reported that they experienced other forms of violence and even torture at the hands of police including being beaten with sjamboks or the butts of guns as well as being tasered.
As part of the study, researchers canvassed about 120 sex workers, the majority of whom were female and lived in Gauteng.
About half the workers filled out questionnaires and the other half, who all indicated past problems with police, were interviewed by researchers. Almost six out of every 10 surveyed workers had been arrested an average of four times, most of whom paid a fine before being released.
But many workers allege their arrests were unlawful or occurred while they were off duty, for instance while out shopping, visiting friends or sitting by the side of the road.
Thendo is a 25-year-old sex worker in Mpumalanga who was interviewed as part of the study.
"One of the policemen hit me on the back with his gun. This officer then struck me a number of times with the gun barrel … One of the other officers had a knife in his hand, and he was threatening me with the knife," she told researchers.
"He ran the knife down my forehead. I jerked my head back."
This gender-based violence is a manifestation of the power police know they hold over marginalised people like sex workers, particularly when workers are foreign or undocumented, says researcher Marlise Richter, who is the head of policy, development and advocacy at Sonke Gender Justice.
"In Mpumalanga, there was very clear motivation by the police to make sex workers as uncomfortable as possible. Some of the police officers would persecute sex workers and torture them by making them eat condoms or by putting them in cold baths," she says.
The South African Police Service did not reply to Bhekisisa requests for comment, although national spokesperson Brigadier Vishnu Naidoo said that police are adequately trained on how to treat the public.
"Any person who is unsatisfied with the police can lodge a complaint with a senior official or station commander at their local police station. If that fails, complainants can contact the National Service Complaints or Independent Police Investigative Directorate," Naidoo says.
Meanwhile, workers say they have little legal recourse against abusive officers. Vidima alleges that, when workers do report crimes committed by police, dockets are often lost.
According to Richter, SAPS has received a copy of the research but has not responded.
Sex workers interviewed by Sonke Gender Justice and Sweat as part of the research reported police regularly confiscate antiretrovirals (ARVs) from workers who have been arrested.
In 2016, sex workers accused police in Emalahleni, Mpumalanga of destroying their HIV treatment after they were arrested as part of a series of violent raids. Workers said they were also denied medical attention while in police cells. At the time, Witbank station commander Brigadier Delisiwe Motha denied the allegations.
National policies have increasingly prioritised sex workers in the country's HIV response, including South Africa's latest HIV and tuberculosis strategic plan. The document focuses on increasing access to HIV prevention and care services to workers. The South African National Aids Council's sex work plan, for instance, says that 95% of HIV-positive workers should be on ARVs by 2019.
Less than a quarter of sex workers living with HIV in Johannesburg are on treatment, a 2014 survey conducted by the national health department found.
Meanwhile, at least one-third of female sex workers in South Africa will contract HIV by the time they are 24, the study found. Their high HIV infection risk is driven in part by the criminalisation of their profession, studies have shown. Research published in 2013 in the journal Culture, Health & Sexuality found that stigma and discrimination against sex workers — particularly against transgender and male workers — weakened HIV prevention efforts and decreases access to healthcare.
Up to 11% of all new HIV infections in South Africa can be linked to sex work, a 2014 study published in The Lancet found.
"This report shows the criminal law makes sex workers vulnerable to abuse — not just from the general public but from law enforcement as well," Richter says.
The report recommends the decriminalisation of sex work to reduce workers' vulnerability to abuse — it's a shift in policy supported by the ANC. At its December elective conference, the ruling party affirmed its commitment to decriminalising sex work, which could reduce HIV infections by, for instance, allowing workers better access to health services and safe working conditions.
As of late last year, the department of justice and constitutional development was still reviewing a South African Law Reform Commission report that recommended the country continue to criminalise the profession.
Sweat and Sonke researchers also recommend annual provincial and national meetings between police and vulnerable groups including sex workers as well as the creation of standard protocols for police on how to handle sex work. Training for police could also lead them to better understand the levels of violence workers face, the report argues.
Researchers added that more work also needs to be done into the experiences of male and transgender workers, who researchers say remain hidden, but are extremely vulnerable to violence.
Vidima explains: "The moralistic view that people have about sex work kind of takes away their humanity towards sex workers. People stop seeing human beings and start seeing all of these stereotypes [about sex workers]."
Additional reporting by Mia Malan.
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MILWAUKEE — Just about every member of the Milwaukee Brewers was the best player on every team he was ever on while working his way up to the Major Leagues. But there's one member of the organization who swears he might not measure up to his sister.
The majority of the time when the Brewers take the field this season, they are less experienced and less well compensated than their opponents. They are not less likely to succeed, though.
Jett Bandy was part of the younger set. He was in his first year with the Brewers until being sent down recently. The catcher's personality allowed him to connect with just about everybody in the clubhouse and allowed him to contribute to the team's obvious enjoyment in playing baseball. Bandy is a fan of fun.
"Oh absolutely. It's a long season and things can drag on. The more fun you have, the more times you smile. It's a game, you have to play it with fun and good things happen when you do that," said Bandy.
Here's a little Bandy family lesson: Jett's dad actually coached Tom Cruise, the actor, on how to flip those bottles up and make the drinks in the movie cocktail — a true story. But Jett's sister, Jenna, may be even more interesting.
"Yeah Jenna, she's pretty special. She's probably the best athlete in the family. I wouldn't say that to her face but she's a stud. She can throw a football. I play catch with her in the off-season all the time. We had a lot of fun when we were kids and she's still having a blast," said Bandy.
That is clear as a bell on YouTube.
"She's not afraid, she's not shy, she's very outgoing and I guess she gets bored sometimes and puts things on YouTube," said Bandy. "I always thought she was a better softball player, honestly. I thought she was great at softball, but she loves basketball. She got a head coaching job at Calabasas High School. She loves that, she loves teaching. She loves teaching girls to do the right things and be responsible, and things like that. I am really happy for her, she's doing really well," Bandy said.
Jenna played college basketball at Cal State-Monterey, but obviously her talents are not limited to merely the court.


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First off the defense is good and if Oliver Vernon doesn't get hurt and have to miss the last possession I'd say they have a shot to win that game in overtime. But the real problem is the offense and I'm telling you right now it's solved. Eli looked the best he has in 2 years in the 4th quarter and that's because he was passing a lot and only running a little, people will say you have to run the ball to be a good team but that's a lie. Eli was getting the ball out so quick the liability known as Ereck flowers couldn't even give up a sack, and if you're telling me a 3rd Cornerback can try and shut down either Sterling Shepard or Brandon Marshall while also trying to cover the athletic freak that is Evan Engram is with just a Linebacker and not a safety I'll say pass whatever your smoking to Roger Lewis jr. because he'd love some. Not only will this passing barrage where hopefully Eli is throwing 45 times a game work but it might even open up some running room for whatever running back they put out there to run the inside zone split they always run. Next game is against the Buccaneers on Sunday and call me crazy but I think they go out there fired up with Eli Picking apart the bad secondary that they have they come out of Tampa 1-3 ready to start a big winning streak. People forget these same Gmen started 2-3 last year before ending it on a 9-2 run to bring it to an 11-5 record.


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The Frank J. and Betty M. Quirk Endowment was established in 2000 to support the technological needs of the Libraries. Frank served as a board member on the Smithsonian Libraries advisory board from 2001-2009 and served as Vice-Chair and Chairman. The Quirk Endowment bolsters the technological infrastructure of the Libraries and ensures excellent service among staff by providing devices and software that enables staff to serve our patrons with up-to-date technology.
"As some of the 'unsung heroes' of the Smithsonian, the Libraries deserved our special support. We chose an endowment approach for our gift in support of the technology needs of the Smithsonian Libraries," says Quirk. "We wanted our gift to have a long term impact, while providing flexibility to the Libraries in addressing its information technology needs. Since we made our initial gift, these technology changes have been even more dramatic than anything we anticipated back in 2000. For us, the endowment approach was perfect, allowing us to have impact initially, add funds over time, and to include the Libraries in our estate planning."
The Quirk Endowment enables our librarians to keep in touch with other staff and their users whether they are in the library, working with collections in another part of the museum, or shuttling between any of the Smithsonian Libraries' 20 branches located in the Smithsonian campus. With library locations from the Republic of Panama to New York City, the networking of on-the-go Smithsonian librarians would not have been possible without the Quirk Endowment.


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Buford Middle School serves Charlottesville students in grades 7 and 8. We offer a wide variety of classes — many for high-school credit — but we recognize that our students are still young adolescents. Our mascot is the Trojans, and our motto is "Be at the Right Place, at the Right Time, doing the Right Thing, with the Right Materials."
Here are four programs that make Buford unique:
The Buford Engineering Design Academy works in partnership with the the University of Virginia, the Smithsonian Institute, and other area public schools. Made possible by the renovation of our science labs in 2013, the program is rethinking how we teach science, incorporating not only engineering principals but history-science connections. All students benefit from this program in their science classes; some students choose to take an engineering exploratory class or even Engineering 1 for high-school credit.
The City Schoolyard Garden at Buford is a unique learning partnership, exploring connections between food, health, the environment, and more throughhands-on activities. In addition to hosting classes in the garden, CSG also has a team of students who garden to satisfy their physical education credit. The Buford garden takes advantage of rainwater harvesting and storage (collecting water from the roof of the school's gym), solar power, a hoop house, and more. Each spring, students raise and give away more than 1000 seedlings to establish the vegetable gardens of area nonprofits.
College readiness is an strong emphasis at Buford. Charlottesville City Schools teaches students whose families have attended college for generations as well as students who will be the trail-blazers for their families. Buford prepares all our students by offering high-school credit classes, by hosting U.Va. deans and professors to offer workshops, and by planning field trips to area colleges. In addition to our accelerated and honors courses, we also have a strong AVID program to serve students, especially those typically underrepresented on university campuses.
As at all Charlottesville Schools, Buford values the fine arts. Our band has earned superior ratings every year since 1983! Our band and orchestra earned Grand Champion state-wide competitions this spring. Our choir sang at Monticello, and our art students regularly win awards. Come see this excellence for yourself by attending one of our many concerts and events.
History of Buford
Named in honor of Florence Buford, who served as principal of Clark Elementary for 33 years, Buford Middle School opened in August 1966 as one of two junior high schools in the City. (Walker School was the other.) In 1988, Buford became the City's only middle school, housing grades 7 and 8, while Walker became an upper elementary school, serving grades 5 and 6.
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Rodney Jordan, principal, forrmerly served as an assistant principal of Dranesville Elementary in Fairfax County since 2017. Previously, he taught in positions ranging from STEM to Language Arts and Mathematics in Northern Virginia and New York schools, primarily in middle-school grades. He has received a number of recognitions for teaching excellence and more in Fairfax and Manassas. Mr. Jordan has earned certifications and degrees from James Madison University (School Administration and Supervision K-12 certificate), George Mason University (M. Ed.), and Norfolk State University (B.S.).
A graduate of Virginia State University with two Master's of Education degrees, Kevin Anderson joined Buford as assistant principal in 2018. He began his teaching career in 2012 in Richmond Public Schools where he taught three years of middle school and one year of elementary school. In 2016, he relocated to Louisa County Public Schools and taught at the high school for two years before joining Buford Middle School.
John Kronstain ("Mr. K") was the lead school counselor at Walker School and is also a former music teacher. He holds degrees and certificates from James Madison University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of Virginia. He serves on the Board of Directors for Region Ten. He has served on a number of division-level committees in areas such as equity.


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Now I've reviewed quite a few boxed sets but this one trumps them all. This one puts all the others to shame. This is a veritable masterpiece. It is the stuff that classic film enthusiasts salivate over. It is by far one of the most beautiful things I have ever beheld. I feel like it is a privilege to be in its presence.
Chances are you own some of these movies already. That's probably why Warner Bros. beefed up the set with a ton of extras. There is a 13th disc which contains The Brothers Warner documentary. A companion book and a package of goodies. Each DVD is given a great menu design and each film comes with extras. 16 of the films have commentaries and there are bonus newsreels, short documentaries, radio shows, cartoons, etc. that beef up the set.
Other than Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon, I don't own any of these films on DVD. I have some on VHS, recordings from TCM including The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse which my friend Kevin is still holding hostage. I've seen 10 out of the 24 films so this is a real treat for me. I really love Humphrey Bogart as an actor. He had great delivery and range and was just plain cool.
I think my only complaint about the set is that it came with a duplicate DVD so I'm missing 2 of the movies. If you buy this set, make sure you check all the DVDs so that you have all 24 movies. If you don't, ask for an exchange!
Purchasing Information: Warner Bros. told me that the street date is October 5th. Trouble is Amazon.com , Classicflix, WBShop, TCM, etc. are not shipping it right now. My guess is that they caught some kind of mistake and are either reworking stock or reprinting new boxed sets. Or they sold out really quickly and are reprinting. So there may be a delay if you order it. If I find out anything, I'll make sure to let people know.
Now it's not enough for me just to tell you about this delightful boxed set. Let me SHOW you. Here is my first ever Vlog. Enjoy!
Special thank you to Warner Bros. who sent this boxed set to me for review (which I would have purchased anyways because it's so awesome). And stay tuned to this space because I'll be reviewing the documentary and will be hosting a 24 Bogie Movie Marathon with short reviews of each of the 24 films.
Enjoyed your post, look forward to the individual movie critiques, but my main response to your article is ENVY. My face has turned completely green, and I already have green eyes, so I look pretty weird. You lucky dog! You have some good viewing to look forward to with the ones you have not seen. I am a Bogart lover too!
Wow. Most movie collections that claim to have all the essentials have been disappointments to me. They always seem to leave something out. The only major Bogie film that seems to be missing is Beat the Devil--understandable given it was United Artists rather than Warner!
BTW, Quelle, you have a very pretty voice!
Mercurie - There are some heavy hitters in this set. Thanks for your lovely compliment.
Excellent presentation! I'm going to go out and purchase 5 sets. I can't wait for your next vlog.
I've critiqued some boxed sets too, so I know what you mean. I did a couple for the Cafe blog. I LOVED doing the Errol Flynn set. I didn't enjoy the latest one so much, on the mini-series Rich Man, Poor Man. It was my first chance to be a real critic, as I didn't find it to be as good as I remembered. I usually write about things I love! This time I got to feel like Roger Ebert!
Okay, I need this! Even though I already have most of these on VHS, I NEED this!
Very good review, & this set does look pretty much essential! Loved the vlog--more of those please.
What a nice collection to have so many great films in one nice set. And the packaging looks stunning! Plus, it is nice that Warners beefed up the extras knowing that many Bogart fans probably have quite a few of the films already.
ClassicBecky - woah you have a lot of blogs.
Niamhy - I would send you one if I could!
John - Thanks for the encouragement. The vlog came out better than expected. I might do another in the future.
Robby - Someone said that the extras were not new. Oh well. They were new to me considering I only had TCM-taped versions of these films.
vlog more! i love it! i cannot wait for this collection to come out! you have made me super pshyced about it!!!
ERin - Thanks! Did you see my Elia Kazan vlog? This boxed set is out. You must get it! It's flippin awesome.


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Home 420 News Medical Marijuana News Missouri Voters, Not Lawmakers, Will Decide The Future Of Medical Cannabis
Missouri Voters, Not Lawmakers, Will Decide The Future Of Medical Cannabis
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A measure that would have narrowly legalized medical marijuana died in the final week of Missouri's legislative session, meaning the issue will be left entirely up to voters in November.
Only terminally ill patients and people with epilepsy could have obtained smokeless medical cannabis under a measure added to a healthcare bill by GOP Rep. Jim Neely from Cameron.
It was a more strict version of a medical marijuana than the House passed earlier this month, in which qualifying conditions included cancer and chronic illnesses such as Crohn's, Alzheimer's and post-traumatic stress disorder.
Democratic Sen. Jason Holsman of Kansas City, who has sponsored medical marijuana legislation since 2009, objected to Neely's amendment.
"It was not in a form that was workable for a functioning industry nor access for patients who really needed the cannabis," Holsman said.
Among Holman's objections were the regulatory framework for the bill, which would have put the program under the control of the state Department of Agriculture, rather than the Department of Health and Senior Services.
"How do you have a medical cannabis … ran by the department of agriculture? It wasn't going to work," Holsman said, adding that he also opposed having only smokeless options and an apparent lack of investment in the state.
Neely, who is a physician, put the blame for the bill's failure squarely Holsman, saying the Democrat was the only member of a conference committee to speak against it.
"It's always disappointing when good legislation doesn't cross the finish line, but I believe the legislature will deal with this issue next year," Neely said in a statement.
Holsman says he was willing to amend the bill, but that Neely refused to do so.
Come November
But Holsman supports the language in an initiative petition by New Approach Missouri. It's one of four marijuana-related ballot proposals submitted to the Secretary of State's office earlier this month, and provides a wide latitude for qualifying conditions.
New Approach Missouri spokesman Jack Cardetti said a statewide vote is the best way to get medical cannabis, already legal in 29 states, in Missouri.
"The popularity of this among legislators is growing leaps and bounds, it's just not there yet. And that's why we decided to go the initiative petition route," Cardetti said. "We did not think [the medical marijuana bill] would pass this year, this is the fourth or fifth year that it's been introduced and it's been debated in Jeff City and it just never seems to get done."
New Approach Missouri submitted more than 300,000 signatures to the Missouri Secretary of State's office — more than double the minimum requirement.
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This week marks the 150th anniversary of the bloodiest battle in American history, the battle of Antietam. Amid a battlefield full of re-enactors, photographer Richard Barnes commemorated the anniversary with a camera very much like those used during the Civil War.
>>> welcome back. years ago this week, september 17th , 1862 . it remains the bloodiest single day in u.s. military history . two days after the battle was over, photographer alexander gardner captured the first photos that americans had ever seen of their war dead. and people were appalled by what they saw. to mark this anniversary, another photographer, richard barnes went back to the battlefield and used a similar camera. we went along this time, joining him and thousand of re-enactors who gathered at the antietam battlefield outside sharpsville, maryland.
>> that way. that way. that way.
>> lincoln need to look right at me and hold absolutely still.
>> as you can see this camera looks different than the digital camera you are familiar with. one, 1,000,000.
>> my name is richard barns, i am a photographer, photographing battlefield. the difficulty foe y photographers faced during the war, they would have been dead if they had been on the field. their exposures were very long. 12 second. got to hold still for 12 second. when i say now. the important thing to remember about antietam, is 23,000 dead, wounded, or missing. confirmed 8,000 dead. never before on american soil have you had this many people killed at one time. i have discovered the people re-enacting the battles are extremely committed.
>> shall we quote mr. lincoln "a nation with little regard for its past will do nothing in the future to be remembered."
>> prersonally, i connect with history. important to be out here connecting with my personal history , include might family who fought for the union army .
>> brady and gardner, were the first photo-journalists on this continent. this is the first battle ever on american soil that had been photographed. alexander gardner arrived two days after the battle was over. this trench, the sunken road was filled with confederate dead at the time. he did not photograph during the battle. technology at the time didn't allow him to do that. that's what i am doing, bringing to this in a contemporary sensibility. i think brady and gardner would think i am a modern version of themselves. it is easy to find a camera like this, you can pick them up on e-bay for nothing.
>> here we go, 12 second. starting right now.
>> you might see a car in the background of my photographs. because i am not interested in replicating the past, not interested in nosnostalgia, i'm interested in the slippage of time where the contemporary and 150 years ago, some how coalesce and combine and overlap. what's important for me is the details, these con,000 tedetails. this is a tarp. what i am trying to integrate into the photographs. this one came out really well. i need some smoke. and i think what it would have been look to be a civil war photographer. the stress that they were going through. i am happy that i am here photographing re-enactments and not the actual battles.
>>> with our thanks to richard barns and of course in memory of all those who lost their lives at antietam.


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Company Ea Sola is a French-Vietnamese fusion. Thematically, things are 100% Vietnamese—there still seems to be no escape from an association of this particular country to war. The French part comes in the style and choreography. ,Sola left her native country in 1974 (Saigon fell in 1975) and spent the years between 1978-1990 in Paris, working with theatre director Jerzy Grotowski , creating underground "happenings" and discovering her own voice as an artist in a series of pieces around the "States of the Body" theme—not political-sounding in the least. Returning to Vietnam in 1990, she received research grants to study her own country's traditional dance and music forms, and her newer work is clearly influenced by this.
"Drought and Rain Vol. 1, "(not being performed in this engagement) which Sola began creating in 1991, featured performers who were non-professional artists, elderly women Sola encountered out in the countryside villages who had been dancers years earlier, before the consequences of war had forced them to stop. In Vol. 2, things are more post-modern as well as post-war, with nine dancers from the Vietnam National Opera Ballet, Hanoi, and an on-stage group of musicians and singers playing traditional instruments, offering grounding to the highly stylized, modern-looking production Sola has created.
A downstage row of framed 8×10's offers headshots of (dead?) Arabs, Africans, Asians and even a white man with a soldier's haircut. Graphics telegraph song lyrics across a screen, and the women dance with their long black hair almost always covering their faces. The men are skinny with their shirts off, and walk, collapse or fly through the air in sudden bursts of martial arts bravado,. There is pedestrian movement, a use of space that is politely geometric, very little partnering, and a lot of theatrical gesturing. "Drought and Rain. Vol. 2" is all heaviness, a requiem for a war before these dancers' time,. But for all its modern look, the dance never seems to suggest that 30 years have passed, that there is peace.
In Japan, a post-war dance-form, Butoh, created a visual Hiroshima– those white-powdered ghost-dancers expressed the essence of a horrible period of time. Sola's work lacks that kind of originality, it never coalesces into a strong statement or feeling. All art comes from malaise, but the mission of the artist is to transcend that.
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Mr. Simpson has a BA in Journalism from the University of Southern California and worked as an advertising writer in Los Angeles before moving to New York to pursue a different passion: dance. He danced professionally in New York and Boston before founding a community-based modern dance company, Small City Dance Project, in Newburyport, MA. His fiction has appeared in literary journals and anthologies. He was a teaching fellow at Smith College, where he received his MFA in choreography. While living in the Bay Area for 15 years, he wrote about dance for the San Francisco Chronicle and other periodicals. In 2005, he was a NEA Fellow at the Dance Critics Institute, American Dance Festival. For culturevulture.net, he reviews dance, theatre and film. He moved to Santa Fe in October, 2008. He writes for "Pasatiempo," the Arts magazine of the "Santa Fe New Mexican."
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Swans were born during the heyday of New York's no wave reaction to punk rock, on the Lower East Side and led by brainchild, guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter Michael Gira.
With a new album and a new band, which sees Ben Frost join the line up, following his amazing recent score for Netflix's DARK, this is a special show in the capital city, with the band's new work celebrating the sounds that they pioneered since their origins in the early 80s - with the brutal, punishing tones of their first records to the lush instrumentals that helped pave the way for the post-rock of today.
Norman Westberg joins for support too, this time sharing the stage to play his solo work after working with Swans since 1982.
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